After all, the Lord, Who fed the five thousand, of course, could always nourish both Himself and His disciples, but He wanted to receive food from women so that they would benefit. So it is with us, it is not so much the poor who benefit from our alms as we are from them. The poor are for us a source of forgiveness of sins and boldness before God.

All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith.

Or: those who love him faithfully and without hypocrisy, or: those who love him faithfully, that is, Christians.

Grace be with you all. Amen.

He prayerfully wishes well, so that the gift of God may be preserved in them, or love for mankind will always be with them, preserving them by grace. Or: may grace always be with them, who are most in need of it, protecting both their souls and bodies in the Holy Spirit. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

Notes

1. According to another reading, they are called gavats.

2. The following words: obedient to their husbands in the text of Blzh. Theophylact are omitted.

3. The next word - undamaged - is omitted from blzh. Theophylact.